phattyboombatty Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 I am super impressed with your use of the hardware in this game! Great music, fantastic artwork—taking several classic shooters and bringing them into the modern "throwback" superstyley reimagined remix fantasy flash forward—and making it look, feel, and play FUN! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIO2 Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 Not sure what happened. I put the Ultimate SD cart in my 5200 but every time I tried to start this game, some Sega Genesis game kept coming up on screen. Just kidding. This game is amazing! Thank you. 40,290 my high score so far. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
playsoft Posted October 15, 2016 Author Share Posted October 15, 2016 Not sure what happened. I put the Ultimate SD cart in my 5200 but every time I tried to start this game, some Sega Genesis game kept coming up on screen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
playsoft Posted October 15, 2016 Author Share Posted October 15, 2016 I received a kind donation of some alternative music which is included in this version. ab5200.zip 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Alexander Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 I received a kind donation of some alternative music which is included in this version. Thank you will mention this on the next 5200 podcast episode 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIO2 Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 Alternate music version with auto fire on. Enjoying this very much. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thevnaguy Posted November 12, 2016 Share Posted November 12, 2016 I received a kind donation of some alternative music which is included in this version. Awesome! We are recording tonight to talk about this game, so cool! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XM05ES Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 :shock: Yow! This is fantastic! I love all of the colors and the way they change! It's really a brain melter! I played all the way through normal mode and a bit into hard mode. Lots of fun! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
playsoft Posted July 3, 2017 Author Share Posted July 3, 2017 :shock: Yow! This is fantastic! I love all of the colors and the way they change! It's really a brain melter! I played all the way through normal mode and a bit into hard mode. Lots of fun! Thanks! Glad you liked it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TemplarXB Posted July 5, 2017 Share Posted July 5, 2017 Amazing game! How is this using the Atarimax? Is it using it as a RAM expansion to the 5200, or is it increasing the ROM size that the 5200 normally could use? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+sramirez2008 Posted July 5, 2017 Share Posted July 5, 2017 I love my Atarimax, but this deserves a cart. Is that even a consideration? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iesposta Posted July 5, 2017 Share Posted July 5, 2017 I love my Atarimax, but this deserves a cart. Is that even a consideration? I would buy this for Atari Computer. However I would want the _original_ music. I think it is the best thing to come out for the Atari Computer and the 5200 in a long time (probably since that latest Tempest). AtariAge should sell it. Playsoft you should Private Message or write to Al here at AtariAge. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariBrian Posted July 5, 2017 Share Posted July 5, 2017 I thought it was to big of a game to put on cart ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+sramirez2008 Posted July 5, 2017 Share Posted July 5, 2017 I thought it was to big of a game to put on cart ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
playsoft Posted July 5, 2017 Author Share Posted July 5, 2017 Amazing game! How is this using the Atarimax? Is it using it as a RAM expansion to the 5200, or is it increasing the ROM size that the 5200 normally could use? Thanks! It makes use of two features of the Atarimax cart. It uses bank switching to make more ROM space available. It uses a 8K bank switching mode where 64 banks are available (the game uses about half of those). Most 5200 games are 16K or 32K non-bank switched ROMs, I think there are only a few bank switched games. The other feature it uses can be seen if you watch the cart just before a level starts - when the led flashes that is it reading the data for that level from the SD card into the cart memory. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
playsoft Posted July 5, 2017 Author Share Posted July 5, 2017 To run standalone on the 5200 it would need a 1MB bank switching cart. As far as I know the largest scheme so far on the 5200 is 512K on the cart developed for M.U.L.E. (which would have been sufficient before the horizontal levels were added). Bank switching is a feature of the cart so I don't think there is any reason why it couldn't be done, but I don't do hardware myself and for someone else to develop it for just this one game is not worthwhile. Also it's a hobby and it's one thing to make something freely available and another to sell it. I'd rather keep things simple and uncommercial. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwilove Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 Thank you all for the nice comments and interest in this game - they are truly appreciated. There was a lot of time and effort put into this project - and it's nice to know it is recognised and appreciated for being a bit different. Harvey 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+sramirez2008 Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 Amazing game! Thanks for making it. Anyone with an Atarimax needs to download this game. Anyone without an Atarimax, now has an excuse to get one and add brand new content. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ZeroPage Homebrew Posted December 1, 2022 Share Posted December 1, 2022 ZeroPage Homebrew is playing AtariBlast on a newly UAV svid modded Atari 5200 (thanks ITC!) on tomorrow's ZPH stream LIVE on Twitch, hope you can join us! Fri Dec 2, 2022 | LIVE @ 6PM PT | 9PM ET | 2AM GMT+1Day WATCH LIVE: https://www.twitch.tv/zeropagehomebrew/WATCH LATER: https://youtube.com/zeropagehomebrew/ Games: Rob 'n' Banks (2022 Retail | 5200) by Phaser Cat Games / Ryan Witmer @Ryan Witmer (Design and Programming) / Konstantinos Giamalidis @TIX (Character and Object Graphics) / Bobby Clark @Synthpopalooza (Sound Effects and Music) / Hrair Abdalian @Henry Lee (Cover Art) / Tony Morse (Manual Layout) Intellidiscs (2021 Retail | 5200) by Phaser Cat Games / Ryan Witmer @Ryan Witmer (Programming) / Bobby Clark @Synthpopalooza (Sound and Music) / G. Tony Morse (Manual Layout) / Vladimir Zuñiga @vhzc (New Identifier Design) / Lou Graziani (Cover Art) / John Calcano @Atariboy2600 (Additional Artwork) Ratcatcher (2016 | 5200) by Phaser Cat Games / Ryan Witmer @Ryan Witmer (Programmed) / Lou Graziani (Additional Artwork) AtariBlast (2016 | 5200) by Paul Lay @playsoft (Code) / Harvey A. Kong Tin @kiwilove (Graphics) / Michał Szpilowski @miker (Flimbo's Quest Music) (WATCH AT 1080P60 FOR BEST QUALITY) 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIX Posted December 1, 2022 Share Posted December 1, 2022 18 minutes ago, ZeroPage Homebrew said: Intellidiscs (2021 Retail | 5200) by Phaser Cat Games / Ryan Witmer @Ryan Witmer (Programming) / Bobby Clark @Synthpopalooza (Sound and Music) / Konstantinos Giamalidis @TIX (Graphics) / G. Tony Morse (Manual Layout) / Vladimir Zuñiga @vhzc (New Identifier Design) / Lou Graziani Hey James, I don't have any involvement with Intellidiscs, please update ! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ZeroPage Homebrew Posted December 1, 2022 Share Posted December 1, 2022 13 minutes ago, TIX said: Hey James, I don't have any involvement with Intellidiscs, please update ! Fixed, thanks for the heads up! Not sure how you snuck in there. 🙂 - James 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
playsoft Posted December 8, 2022 Author Share Posted December 8, 2022 On 12/1/2022 at 8:40 PM, ZeroPage Homebrew said: ZeroPage Homebrew is playing AtariBlast on a newly UAV svid modded Atari 5200 (thanks ITC!) on tomorrow's ZPH stream LIVE on Twitch, hope you can join us! Fri Dec 2, 2022 | LIVE @ 6PM PT | 9PM ET | 2AM GMT+1Day WATCH LIVE: https://www.twitch.tv/zeropagehomebrew/WATCH LATER: https://youtube.com/zeropagehomebrew/ Games: Rob 'n' Banks (2022 Retail | 5200) by Phaser Cat Games / Ryan Witmer @Ryan Witmer (Design and Programming) / Konstantinos Giamalidis @TIX (Character and Object Graphics) / Bobby Clark @Synthpopalooza (Sound Effects and Music) / Hrair Abdalian @Henry Lee (Cover Art) / Tony Morse (Manual Layout) Intellidiscs (2021 Retail | 5200) by Phaser Cat Games / Ryan Witmer @Ryan Witmer (Programming) / Bobby Clark @Synthpopalooza (Sound and Music) / G. Tony Morse (Manual Layout) / Vladimir Zuñiga @vhzc (New Identifier Design) / Lou Graziani (Cover Art) / John Calcano @Atariboy2600 (Additional Artwork) Ratcatcher (2016 | 5200) by Phaser Cat Games / Ryan Witmer @Ryan Witmer (Programmed) / Lou Graziani (Additional Artwork) AtariBlast (2016 | 5200) by Paul Lay @playsoft (Code) / Harvey A. Kong Tin @kiwilove (Graphics) / Michał Szpilowski @miker (Flimbo's Quest Music) (WATCH AT 1080P60 FOR BEST QUALITY) Thanks for playing the game - it was surprising to see it crash! I dug the 5200 out of hibernation this morning, downloaded the updated music build and played it through to the Fractalus Mothership level without any issues. I played a second game and made it further to the Cytron level. The crash has not been reported here before, but I'm guessing the game might not be played much. Out of interest, has anyone else had this crash? Or made it through to any of the later levels - if you've played the Zaxxon, Fractalus, Scramble, Xevious, Spaceships, Cytron, Olde Zealand, Asteroids, Jet planes, Bounty Bob, Drol or Circuit board levels then you made it past the Xavier level where ZPH crashes. I doubt I could do much about it as it doesn't crash on my system, I only have one 5200 and one Atarimax Ultimate SD (and it can't be tested via emulation). Plus the code must be 8 years old, so a bit of a distant memory now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RB5200 Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 Out of all the times iv'e played it, I have not had it crash. Iv'e always played on 4port. but now i'm playing it on 2port just to see if any thing happens or not. I dont know what zero page hombrew used. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+-^CrossBow^- Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 28 minutes ago, RB5200 said: Out of all the times iv'e played it, I have not had it crash. Iv'e always played on 4port. but now i'm playing it on 2port just to see if any thing happens or not. I dont know what zero page hombrew used. Their new UAV upgraded 5200 is a 4 port model. That was on purpose so they could use it for multiplayer games where more than 2 people are supported that required a 4 port version of the console. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marauder666 Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 @playsoft i’ll give it a run over the weekend, paul. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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